The Coleman Center for the Arts was pleased to offer Camp COLOR, an annual summer camp for area youth ages 8 to 18. Boldness, creativity, energy, and collaborative fun served as inspiration for this year’s theme. Instructors offered lessons and projects in visual art, performance, dance, and creative writing. The week wrapped up on Saturday […]
June 1, 2011 Artist Samita Sinha will be visiting throughout 2011 to collaborate with area residents in a community wide ensemble. The group will create new compositions that braid different versions of the same songs that are common to the repertoires of the area’s black and white churches, but that are arranged and performed differently. […]
January 22, 2011 The Coleman Center for the Arts is pleased to welcome artist Matthew Mazzotta on his first visit to York. Please join us at the Coleman Center for food, fun, and creative conversation on Saturday, January 22nd from 10 to 11 am. While exploring his work through and with the community, Mazzotta will […]
November 14, 2010 Memorial Event, by visiting artist Steed Taylor, took place at the Coleman Center for the Arts in November of 2010. Participants were invited to write the names of loved ones, memories, or thoughts, onto balloons that were released into the sky, and blessed by a community prayer. The project introduced the York […]
Summer 2010 MASH UP turns the Coleman Center gallery into a collaborative space for artist projects, research, and community events. The show will be ongoing from May 6th August 14th. Community Sing, Samita Sinha and Stephanie Loveless, May 6th, 6pm Artists Samita Sinha and Stephanie Loveless will be holding a “Community Sing.” The public is invited to […]
May 6, 2010 In the spring of 2010, artist Samita Sinha and collaborator Stephanie Loveless began work with the CCA and the York community. The artists spent a week offering workshops in sound, choral experiments, and singing. Their visit concluded with a “Community Sing,” in which area residents sang and talked about American folk songs […]
September 25, 2009 The One Mile Garden is a collaborative project with artists Bob Bingham, Ally Reeves, and Robin Hewlett, and the Coleman Center for the Arts and the community of York, Alabama. This community project will be featured in the Coleman Center for the Arts’ gallery from September 25th to November 13th, 2009. An […]
July 20, 2006 The Coleman Center for Arts and Culture in cooperation with the municipalWORKSHOP, is pleased to announce the newest project of the Coleman Center’s Public Artworks Program by current resident artists Jason S. Brown and Elizabeth Scofield. From a distance, a series of tall, bright red fabric spikes are moving in the breeze. […]
May 18, 2006 The Coleman Center is pleased to announce The Darkest Hour is Just Before the Dawn, a new project of their Public Artworks Program by resident artists Owen Mundy and Joelle Dietrick. The project is named after a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and explored the optimism of the region, both […]
Fall 2005 In the fall of 2005 the Coleman Center collaborated with the City of York and Auburn University’s Center for Architecture and Urban Studies to undergo the Small Town Design Initiative strategic planning process. Students of the Center led by Professor Cheryl Morgan, visited York continuously over a period of several months, talking with […]